From February 17 to March 16, 1979, new China, which had just entered the right track, ushered in the first test, and this was also the largest war since the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
In this arduous war, our military armed forces dealt a heavy blow to the Vietnamese army. In this war of self-defense and defense of the territory, we not only won victories, but also stabilized the situation in Southeast Asia, and even had a deep impression of the international situation.
This war is a war of counterattack against Vietnam, and how did the Soviet Union, a good ally of our country, respond after encountering the warning of the United States?
Vietnamese history, the birth of the country
As a neighbor of southern China, the Vietnamese region has always been part of the administrative region of China as a county of China. However, with the independence of the Vietnamese Dynasty from the Southern Han Dynasty in China at the end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, although the Song Dynasty tried to recover, it eventually failed, and after that, Vietnam was recognized by the Chinese government as an independent vassal state.
In modern times, foreign powers began to invade the East, many weak and small countries became their subordinate colonies, and Vietnam also became a colony of France, China was gradually reduced to a semi-colony because of the backwardness of the closed country, and the two countries formed a deep friendship because of their neighbors whose fates were linked.
The older groups of revolutionaries in Vietnam and the Communist Party had experience in fighting in China, and it was because of this that the Communist Party of China and Vietnam made a very deep fighting friendship in various liberation revolutions.
Because Vietnam's military strength was weak, it was particularly difficult in the anti-French war, and as a friend of neighboring countries, New China sent a military advisory group to guide the Vietnamese army in the war of resistance against France, and won the battle.
But immediately after the outbreak of the Vietnam War, China launched a campaign to resist the United States and aid Vietnam, sending a large number of air defense and engineering units into Vietnam, and this was three years.
After successfully helping Vietnam to victory in battle, China provided Vietnam with aid equivalent to 20 billion US dollars, showing its support for Vietnam's liberation. However, such friendly relations did not last long, and as China and the United States resumed diplomatic contacts, relations between China and Vietnam slowly became tense again.
In 1969, after the death of Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, the new leader, Le Thanh, came to power, seized the leadership of North Vietnam, and later defeated the South Vietnamese regime to unify Vietnam. Subsequently, South Vietnam was incorporated into North Vietnam, and Lê Thanh changed the name of the first secretary of the Viet Cong party to general secretary, unlike ho Chi Minh before him, Lê Duần was closer to the Soviet Union.
China and the United States thawed and war broke out
Because of economic and topographical factors, the U.S. advantage in the Vietnam battlefield was getting weaker and weaker, and the North Vietnamese government received strong support from China and the Soviet Union, which led to a stalemate in the war.
Seeing that the situation was not right, in 1973 the United States decided to withdraw its troops from Vietnam, and because of the Vietnamese issue, the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam was formally signed in Paris, the capital of France, and all U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam within two months.
Because the war consumed a large amount of national strength of the United States, the Soviet Union took the opportunity to launch a strategic offensive against the United States, and under such pressure, China and the United States began to thaw.
However, the former ally of the Soviet Union repeatedly invaded Zhenbao Island on the Chinese side of the center line of the main channel of the Ussuri River in Heilongjiang Province, and shelled Chinese waters, the Chinese border troops were forced to counterattack in self-defense, and Sino-Soviet relations completely deteriorated.
At this time, after the completion of Vietnam's reunification, backed by the big tree of the Soviet Union, it began to try to annex the entire peninsula. China, on the other hand, opposed the Soviet Union's support for the Vietnamese invasion. It was also because of this incident that China's counterattack against Vietnam broke out, and Carter also specially warned the Soviet Union through the hotline between the United States and the Soviet Union that it could not meddle in the affairs between China and Vietnam for any reason, and this behavior also showed that it wanted to make the Soviet Union retreat and abandon China as an ally.
However, Chinese people were very angry about Vietnam's shameless behavior, so the central government decisively decided to send border troops to support Cambodia and use this way to restrain the Vietnamese army.
Subsequently, after a brief discussion, the order to resist Vietnam was immediately conveyed. Border guards, made up of troops from Yunnan and Kunming, bore the brunt of the attack and took down many cities in Vietnam as quickly as possible, and this purpose was also to contain the Vietnamese army and cut off its rear support.
Although the domestic situation had just stabilized at this time, the army was not too inferior to the battle, and the ten-year rest restored the team to its peak state, and on the battlefield like a god, the Vietnamese army was powerless.
In charge of this team, it was Yang Dezhi, the commander who performed well in aiding Vietnam and resisting the Law, as the commander-in-chief. And a series of operational measures were arranged, and many armies and navies were also deployed in the northern seas to prevent the Soviet Union from taking the opportunity to sneak into the north of our country at this time.
And this team with oriental mysterious colors, only 150,000 people, can go through five levels and slash six generals in the Vietnamese battlefield, with the least number of people, playing an absolute advantage.
When the central authorities announced this combat order to the whole country, the people of the whole country were cheering, and the people who had long been extremely dissatisfied with the Vietnamese army began to join the army enthusiastically, hoping to use their meager strength to repay the motherland. After one war report after another came, it made the ordinary people very happy, and some people even named this team as "Heavenly Soldier and Heavenly General." ”
After several days of arduous fighting, the war was finally won.
Through the ten-year-Vietnam border war, the stability of China's southwest frontier was maintained. For the Vietnamese side, the effects of the war were long-lasting, and the national strength was long-term depleted and destroyed, and eventually had to change course. In 1979, during the retreat, the Chinese army recovered a large amount of materials previously aided by Vietnam and destroyed military facilities, roads, railways and mines in Vietnam along the way.
brief summary:
After this vietnam defense war, it is not only the victory in the war, but also China's proof to the world that this sleeping lion has awakened and is no longer the colonial power that was slaughtered by others in the past.
On the big stage of the world, it also has its own place, becoming two superpowers in which the United States and the Soviet Union compete for each other, and with the victory of this battle, more and more European countries have begun to recognize that China's status in the world has also had a certain influence on the world pattern.
In the context of this light, it is a lot of scientists, soldiers, and soldiers who exchange their lives and time for return, and we, as a new generation of young people, should study hard and defend this country for our predecessors in the future.